Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There appears to be no way to stop the slaughter. Despite extensive contrary evidence, the Rwanda government denies that the Tutsi are being massacred. A five-man UN mission investigated Tutsi raids, but was unable to discover much; presumably, the Parmehutu officials in Rwanda were uncooperative. Assemblies of African states, preoccupied with military revolts in Uganda and Tanganyika, have been reluctant to intervene...
...arson, and murder. It was not easy to assess the accuracy of all the atrocity stories being handed the press. One group said that it had been machine-gunned by Pakistani border guards as it tried to cross the frontier; the original claim of 200 refugees killed in the slaughter was later downgraded to two. The Pakistanis could retort indignantly that 35,000 Moslems in West Bengal had been uprooted from their homes by Indian authorities and deported to East Pakistan as treacherous spies. Even in India, that was an awful lot of spies...
What saved the rest of the mission from wholesale slaughter was the sudden arrival of a small U.N. plane, with Canadian Brigadier General Jacques Dextraze aboard. Buzzing the rebels, the plane succeeded in alerting a nearby band of Congolese regulars to their presence. When the government troops arrived, the rebels had vanished into the bush, doubtless to plot their next assault in terrorized Kwilu...
...supply and eating the best pasture grass. For these reasons alone, the nation's sheep herders and cattle ranchers not long ago decided the kangaroo had to go, and at last count their vendetta was producing 15,000 to 20,000 kangaroo carcasses a week, a high enough slaughter to prompt one New South Wales Labor Party leader to forecast the disappearance of kangaroos from Australia "the same way bisons disappeared from America...
Though kangaroo hunting dates back years in Australia, it is only recently that it has become more a war than a sport. Some Australians have been so worried by the slaughter that several states ruled that kangaroo hunters must be licensed, but this resulted in the buying up of licenses by wealthy landowners who turned right around and hired sharpshooters to get the job done. One estimate now places the registered kangaroo shooters in Queensland alone at close to 1,800, most of whom hire themselves out to ranchers, and a good hunter can earn...